Trying to improve gut health as clearly low stomach acid is causing issues with absorbing nutrients. Consistent high cortisol is clearly not good, so effort to reduce and phosphatidylserine definitely has had a positive effect. Helps with sleep too. Obviously overall aim is get rid of persistent sides, sexual, brain fog, loss of night vision, but baseline got quite a lot worse over the last 18 months - 2 years so I'm trying to get this back up.

Things considering;

Progesterone cream - have tried this for a bit before and seemed pretty positive. Felt more relaxed. Persistent thumping heartbeat and 'heartbeat in head' that I feel on my pillow was much reduced/gone. May try the 14 days on, 4 off cycle that a number of PFS people recovered with

Pine pollen powder - had a good run on this in the past until high-e sides came on (oddly as it should lower e), but may give it another go

TUDCA/UDCA - had a good run with TUDCA which did result in sweating almost properly again (almost zero sweating since tane), but it's hard to get hold of and some brands unreliable but may give this another go as I've got loads of UDCA and some TUDCA left

Herb cycling - some of the 'CDnuts' herbs have given me some benefits in the past (Tribulus most notably), but I always felt overall the gains from these quickly got me to a slightly better baseline, but that levelled off and benefits go as soon as you stop, but may consider cycling them again

R-Andro - plan to do a run once I've improved my baseline, have got some ready, but didn't notice anything when trying it for a few days

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Thanks for sharing TanedOut. I sent you a message on Acne.org -- cool to see you here as well. Here's my stack:

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Vitamin A palmitate (~2000 - 4000 IU, once a day) - Significantly reduced inflammation in lower GI tract (colon, maybe small bowel?). Remarkable improvement (I've gained ~7-8 lbs and I'm no longer afraid of food). I may suffer from eosinophilic esophagitis, or GERD, or both -- which is afflicting my upper GI tract. Vitamin A has helped these symptoms as well, but they are not totally resolved. May also help with anxiety (hard to tell).

*Yeast intolerance is actually a big deal for me. It significantly increase lower GI inflammation. I've tested positive for yeast IgA and IgG yeast antibodies, which are a marker of Crohn's disease. Think I was living with a mild, chronic Crohn's flare for like 9 years post Accutane. Vitamin A has been tremendously helpful.

Document your progress! I have a google drive I use to log my symptoms (anxiety, upper GI, lower GI, dry eye, cognitive function, ptosis). I can access it on my phone, at work, etc. This has been very helpful in keeping track of what's helping and what's not. I just noticed that Catto is doing the same thing... nice.

Carnitine l-fumarate and methyl B-complex will definitely help too! I've read people getting great benefits from noopept too, but it's obviously not natural stuff so I think most people tend to avoid it

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how much do you get onboard with the nootropics? Im not sure how much its been discussed in that big thread because its so shit in tracking topics. Thank god we have this board now.

But anyway reddit nootropics seems to be a great community for us all to delve into. I feel things like Piracetem hold lots of promise, i could be wrong those. Maybe more bandaids. But bandaids will do right now.

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how much do you get onboard with the nootropics? Im not sure how much its been discussed in that big thread because its so shit in tracking topics. Thank god we have this board now.

But anyway reddit nootropics seems to be a great community for us all to delve into. I feel things like Piracetem hold lots of promise, i could be wrong those. Maybe more bandaids. But bandaids will do right now.

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I didn't know powedercity is still around, thought it got closed because some idiot ODed on tianeptine.

I ordered Phenibut once from them and it was definitely the best stuff I ever took for anxiety - even 250mg and I felt immediately more relaxed in the mind and the body, so yes that's true GABA agonists help, but phenibut apparently targets GABA-B from what I read.

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I didn't know powedercity is still around, thought it got closed because some idiot ODed on tianeptine.

I ordered Phenibut once from them and it was definitely the best stuff I ever took for anxiety - even 250mg and I felt immediately more relaxed in the mind and the body, so yes that's true GABA agonists help, but phenibut apparently targets GABA-B from what I read.